Purple Art Projects for Preschool

Teach your preschool students about the color purple, and have fun doing so with these easy to prepare and inexpensive art projects for preschool and homeschool students.

Purple Grape Painting

Spread purple paint onto a sponge to create a stamp pad. Use corks as stampers to create purple circles. Show students how to group the purple stamps together to create a bunch of grapes. Use a paintbrush and green paint to add a stem and leaves.

Purple Eggplant Prints

Spread purple paint on a large sponge to create a stamp pad. Cut an eggplant in half to create two stampers. Let students press the eggplants into the purple paint and them make prints on white paper.

Purple Pansies

Cut flower petal shapes out of purple paper. Show students how to group the petals in the circle to make a flower shape. Add green leaves and let students draw stems with a green marker.

Purple Thumbprints

Using a nontoxic ink pad, help students make purple thumbprints on a piece of paper. Let them use thin marker to turn their thumprints into bugs, people, flowers, and whatever else they can imagine.

Red and Blue Make Purple

Give your students a dab of red paint on one side of a long piece of paper, a dab of blue on the other side of the paper, and a dab of each color in the middle. Let them spread the red paint out into a shape, then wipe their fingers on a paper towel and do the same with the blue paint. Next instruct them to mix the two colors in the middle to make a shape and ask them what color red and blue make when mixed together.

Eggplant Lacing card

Cut an eggplant shape out of purple cardstock for each child and punch holes around the edge in ½ to 1 inch intervals. Tape a long piece of purple or white yarn to the back of the eggplant and tape the loose end of yarn to make a "needle." Show students how to lace around the edges of their eggplant.

Purple Splatter Painting

Set out several shades of purple paint and give each child a piece of white paper. After putting a smock on each child, dip toothbrushes in some of the paint. Provide popsicle sticks to rub across the toothbrushes to splatter paint on their papers. Mount the finished paintings on purple construction paper.